• Free Meal Programs at Schools

    2025-26 Universal (Free) Breakfast Program Schools

    Financial support provided by Child Nutrition Services and Wake County allows certain schools to offer a Universal Breakfast Program that lets all students enrolled at the school receive breakfast at no cost.  Universal Breakfast schools are evaluated annually. The following schools are participating in the 2025-26 Universal Breakfast Program:

    • Dillard Drive Elementary
    • Durant Road Elementary
    • Lincoln Heights Elementary
    • Poe Elementary
    • Reedy Creek Elementary

     

    2025-26 Community Eligibility Provision (CEP)

    The Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) is a USDA program that allows qualifying schools to serve breakfast and lunch to all enrolled students at no cost. Households do not need to complete a meal benefits application for students attending a CEP school and families cannot be asked to complete a meal benefits application for students attending a CEP school for other education benefits purposes.

    If households have other students attending a non-CEP school, they must complete a meal benefits application for their other students if they want to be considered for discounted free or reduced-price meal benefits.  

    If your student attends one of these schools, they will receive free meals (breakfast and lunch) at school for the 2025-26 school year. 

    • Aversboro Elementary
    • Barwell Elementary
    • Beaverdam Elementary
    • Brentwood Elementary
    • Bugg Elementary
    • Carver Elementary*
    • Centennial Campus Magnet Middle
    • Connections Academy
    • Creech Road Elementary
    • East Garner Elementary
    • East Garner Middle
    • East Millbrook Magnet Middle
    • Forestville Road Elementary
    • Forest Pines Drive Elementary
    • Fox Road Elementary
    • Green Magnet Elementary
    • Hodge Road Elementary
    • Knightdale Elementary
    • Lockhart Elementary
    • Longview
    • Millbrook Magnet Elementary and the Early Learning Center at Memory Road
    • Mount Vernon Middle
    • Neuse River Middle
    • North Garner Middle
    • Phillips High
    • River Bend Elementary
    • River Bend Middle
    • River Oaks Middle
    • Rogers Lane Elementary
    • SCORE Academy
    • Smith Magnet Elementary
    • Southeast Raleigh Elementary
    • Southeast Raleigh Magnet High
    • Timber Drive Elementary
    • Vandora Springs Elementary
    • Wakelon Elementary
    • Walnut Creek Elementary
    • Wilburn Elementary
    • Wildwood Forest Elementary
    • Wendell Elementary
    • Wendell Middle
    • Yates Mill Elementary
    • Zebulon Elementary
    • Zebulon Middle